Sarah Edmands Martin

DESIGNER

Associate Professor
University of Chicago

Designer, artist, and scholar working at the intersection of visual communication design, critical fabulation, and media aesthetics. 


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2026 Graphis award winner  
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Spectre App

UI/UX, illustration, animation, creative writing 2015
Interactive dark fairytale for the project Spectre: A Tale of Whisps & Whimsy, featuring original illustrations, fiction, animations, and app design.







Concept


Spectre: A Ghostly Tale of Whisps & Whimsy addresses dual forms of communication: the genre of fairy tale, and the hypermedia,
interactive digital space of the iPad. This work explores the way we read and participate in a story. The opportunity to wander, ruminate, and explore is built in to the user interface. A reader can access multiple back-stories via colored codified objects, while more subtle discoveries take extra effort to expose. A user may choose to participate in this or not and in this regard, the narrative is semi-open.
fairytale
illustration
creative writing
animation
after effects
user interface
app design

exhibited at the Zuckerman Museum of Art (2015)